AP PhotoDonald Fehr, executive director of the National Hockey League Players Association, speaks with reporters Monday in Toronto.

The owners should find out today exactly what the
National Hockey League Players Association thinks of their proposal to slash
revenue sharing under a new collective bargaining agreement.

Eight years after locking the players out for an entire
season, the owners are asking for more concessions when the current CBA expires
Sept. 15.

The proposal they gave the NHLPA on July 13 includes
reducing the players' share of hockey related revenues from 57 percent to 46,
limiting contracts to five years, eliminating arbitration and extending the
waiting period for unrestricted free agency from seven years to 10.

No progress was made in four days of negotiations last week
but talks are scheduled to resume today in Toronto, where the players are expected to submit a counterproposal to the owners, according to a Tweet Monday by Montreal Canadiens defenseman Yannick Weber, who said it was "Nice to see all #theplayers on board! Excited about our alternative proposal, being presented tomorrow."

NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr – former head of the Major League
Baseball players union – has said he doesn't see any reason the season can't
start on time as long as negotiations are ongoing.

At the same time, the NHLPA wasn't happy with the owners' proposal.

"There is a
meaningful gulf there," Fehr said last week, according to ESPN.com. "The
biggest reason was, it seems to us that both overall and on a club-by-club
basis, all of the revenue-sharing payments -- both the new ones and the
existing ones -- would be paid for by player salary reductions."

Detroit Red Wings general manager Ken Holland said last week
that he thinks it's a good sign both sides are talking regularly since that
didn't happen in 2004, when the entire season was eventually wiped out by the
last lockout.

Negotiations are scheduled to continue through Friday before resuming again next week.